Dakka

"Dakka," I said contemptuously, alluding to the Indian hemp on which natives make themselves drunk throughout great districts of Africa.

The Ivory Child Henry Rider Haggard 1890

"Marrakech is the great market of the south...not only the Atlas with its feudal chiefs and their wild clansman, but all that lies beyond of heat and savagery: the Sahara of the veiled Touaregs, Dakka, Timbuctoo, Senegal and the Soudan."

Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011

"Marrakech is the great market of the south...not only the Atlas with its feudal chiefs and their wild clansman, but all that lies beyond of heat and savagery: the Sahara of the veiled Touaregs, Dakka, Timbuctoo, Senegal and the Soudan."

Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011

"Marrakech is the great market of the south...not only the Atlas with its feudal chiefs and their wild clansman, but all that lies beyond of heat and savagery: the Sahara of the veiled Touaregs, Dakka, Timbuctoo, Senegal and the Soudan."

Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011

"Marrakech is the great market of the south...not only the Atlas with its feudal chiefs and their wild clansman, but all that lies beyond of heat and savagery: the Sahara of the veiled Touaregs, Dakka, Timbuctoo, Senegal and the Soudan."

Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011

Muhammad Akbar claimed the state document he wielded entitled him to collect the same export commission rates in Kohat as at Dakka or any of the other official toll posts between Kabul and Peshawar. 51 Most of the Afghan nomads in Kohat had dispersed by the time Muhammad Akbar arrived, and most of those who remained and were found with fruit in their possession claimed insufficient resources to pay the required arat fees.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

The author of the Kabul Newsletter of February 18, 1887, enclosed in this file then comments [t] he transit dues paid by them from Dakka to Tashkurgan amount to 18 or 20 lakhs of rupees per annum.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

For the kuchi carriers, whether in adjustment to or avoidance of security deposits and signed receipts and/or the Dakka-centered Khaibar routing, the fruit monopoly reconfigured a number of everyday spatial and fiscal practices.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

If security deposits could not be collected from the nomadic traders at the Kabul customs house, the nomads were expected to make their required deposits at one of the four aforementioned locations between Kabul and Dakka.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

In order to encourage the kuchis to use the Khaibar route Abd al-Rahman ordered security deposits to be collected from them, preferably at Dakka, the last Durrani state transit-trade post in the Khaibar corridor.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008